[UPDATE 10:44 p.m.] Child Found Unresponsive After Being Left in Car at Bear River Casino

At approximately 6:40 p.m., Bear River Casino employees contacted emergency services with the report of an unresponsive child in a vehicle. Medical services were dispatched to the casino. Upon arrival, the child was beginning to respond and has been taken to the hospital. According to the scanner, the child was left in the car about 45 minutes. The woman who left the child returned to the vehicle and law enforcement is speaking to her.

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too busy wanting to win the big buck (lose her ass off) to pay attention to her child? WTF? it was a hot day too. Praying the child survives, and the [edit] loses the child! Bear River casino sucks anyway!

Bear River Casino does not encourage nor condone leaving children or animals in vehicles. The parent/guardian that left the child in the car is 100% responsible. The parent will be charged with child endangerment and will have to attend criminal court hearings. CPS will also conduct an investigation. The employee at BRC should receive positive recognition for saving this child’s life!!

It aids in some people’s addictions, and the destruction of many people’s lives….. just the same as a DUMBASS leaving a child in a car iin 70 degree weather has the possibility to destroy people’s lives….. Birds of a feather and all that good stuff.

Hopefully the child survives and gets a more responsible guardian….. Emphasis on the GUARD!

If the kid was left outside in the hot sun at the mall would you blame the mall for the grandmother’s shopping addictions? Probably not. Your comment is ridiculous. Don’t leave a two year old unattended. Period. Doing so is just bad parenting. Thank God the employees at Bear River saved her before something worse happened.

Lol, outside in the hot sun, at the mall, now that is ridiculous. My comment not so much. Seeing as the POS responsible for leaving the kid in the car obviously also has a gambling problem. Think about it smart one, it’s not hard to grasp the concept. But then again, thinking can be hard for some people! Point in case, this so called “grandmother” thinking it was acceptable to leave a child in the car to go gamble! Exhibit B, your response….

However, she chose bear river, the problem is the mentality of these people with addiction issues like gambling and drugs…. But hey, let’s just give them a safe place to use, no one will get hurt, except maybe a small child.

Thank the anti abortion folks for the tremendously huge amount of unwanted children. Once the fetus is born the same people complain about welfare moms, or blame parents for not being around enough because they have to work 2-3 jobs just to make it thru the month. 250,000 bukx super bare minimum to raise a kid in the US to age 18. The kids put up for adoption rarely make it out of foster homes, especially around here. Talk to the folks who work at CASA and see what you think.

These days “pro-life” should really say pro-welfare and pro-prison. Not blaming the mom or kid. There are no handbooks, thats why planned parenthood is so important, the majority of their work is helping people who have no idea how to care for an infant. Like dont leave them alone in cars.
Those “pregnancy centers” that are really just places to be guilted into having the kid ought to be shut down.

This is an awful story. I sincerely hope that this child survives and is placed into the care of better parents.

I am afraid that you are lost in a vacuum of unintelligence. Responsible people not only do not leave living creatures in vehicles in the sun while they run off to get their dopamine fix, they don’t HAVE children that they are unable to support or care for in the first place. Popping out kids and then demanding support from, whoever, is totally irresponsible, archaic and ridiculous. It’s 2017, try some birth control or self restraint! Whining about how hard life is will get you nowhere. Go grow some weed, that will help… Let’s call in CPS. They help. A lot. Yeah.

“Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son…” Dean Wormer

Get an education. Get a career. Don’t have children when you can’t afford them. Act responsible, for a few minutes at least, sometime during your life.

It’s a sad thing, the women with no self esteem, and the society of fuck-and-run men, who have no values or breeding or self-worth. I pity the children raised in Humboldt, they will have lives of pain and suffering caused by their short sighted and stupid parents.

A strong, progressive eugenics program is essential if we`re to have any hope at all as a species. By allowing — even encouraging — the weak and unfit to reproduce, we`re destroying the results of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands or years of natural selection and evolution.

A reasonable first step toward a common sense, progressive eugenics program would be the sterilization of: 1. Anyone convicted of any serious crime of violence. 2. Anyone with more than 1 child would be required to be sterilized before they could receive any sort of welfare or public assistance. 3. Any male who consistently fails to pay child support would be sterilized.

Why? So the kid can go to an overflowing foster home where theres a high percentage they’ll be abused and never adopted out?
Sorry to harsh your vibe but its true and we need to start being real about it. Screw sterilization for women, get the men the big V! Way easier procedure for men than women.

If you cannot afford a babysitter, you cannot afford to visit the casino.
PERIOD.
It’s never, ever ok to leave a little one alone in a car, but at least we can kind of understand popping into Papa Murphy’s or thinking that “it’s only going to take a minute” to grab a quart of milk or mail a package.

There is absolutely no reasoning by which it can be understood how someone convinces themselves that hitting the casino (or bar) while caring for a child is, in any way, acceptable.

Shana – actually in the state of California even for that “only for a minute” it is totally illegal to leave a child ALONE in the car for any reason. Sorry. If you’re in that much of a hurry do it later when someone can watch the child. “only a minute” can always turn onto a wait for your turn, etc. Just not sound advice on any level. I’ve been snobbed at for telling folks (moms usually!) it’s not OK even if “they can see me in the store through the window”. What the hell are they having kids for? Ahem, yes, they do interrupt your life. So NO, I cannot understand why anyone wants to leave a child in the car by itself ever! Even in your own driveway.

Because the myth you ladies create that the dad’s are always the bad parents are just that, a damn myth. Also a dad would have more common sense. Just like all the mother’s you see starring at their phone while their kids are acting a fool!

How is the casino responsible? Many cars have tinted windows, how would they know who is inside the parked cars unless they put their faces to the windows to check. Who is going to do that without someone saying they were trying to break in. Whoever the low life was that left the child in the car is the one who is responsible and should have been arrested. No excuses! They knew better. Gambling is not more important than a child. Not saying that is what they were doing there, but you never leave a child in the car for even 1 minute!!!!!

Hey that’s my sister you are talking to and I don’t appreciate your words there. Not sure why she needs any help from the comment she made, she’s right it has nothing to do with the casino the casino never left child in the car the mother did.

Leaving a child in a hot car is 100% child neglect and abuse and for 45 minutes, you can’t be serious, it was hot outside. To many people all over this world has lost children due to extreme heat exposure. WTF is wrong with people? Kids should be your #1 priority not whatever it was that your doing.. If your Gonna have children take care of them and protect them or find a responsible adult to watch them that you trust.. Just Saying. P.S. I hope this child is OK and all is well..

For Sharpen Your Pencil: some dude in eureka last year left his 2 kids & his keys in his car while he ran an errand at (as I recall) an auto parts store. Kids got kidnapped when the car got stolen. Both genders can & do screw up while parenting.

Father’s Day – Where was the father? This is the historical misogyny of our society – a woman is being talked to as the person who left the child, but we don’t know if that is accurate. People assume 1. it’s the mother 2. she is at fault.

How about she left the child with the father and he took off? Possible? Yes. We don’t know: Please, assume less guilt and just hope for the child to recover.

It`s heartening and encouraging to see a few intelligent readers are in favor of sterilization and one addressed the tragedy of unwanted children. I have never been able to understand the anti – abortion crowd. I don`t think any woman has an abortion just for kicks, so what is the issue — it`s her own damned business. I would be in favor — strongly — of a tax funded sterilization program and tax funding of abortions and of course any other means of birth control. Being pragmatic, I`d much rather pay for an abortion or sterilization than have to pay for supporting an unwanted offspring in prison or on welfare.

This woman is the mother to Devon, who also left her oldest daughter in a hot car in redway with a passed out junkie… but blame the casino for her poor choices! Way to go security!!! thank god for you guys!

You all are worried and discussing shyt about the casino when it comes down to the motha fudgin point is THE MOTHER OR WHOEVER LEFT THEIR CHILD A BABY THAT CANT TALK OR HELP THEMSELVES IN A LOCKED HOT CAR IN A FREAKING CARSEAT… AND SINCE YALL WANNA TALK ABOUT THE CASINO N DUMB MEANINGLESS BULLSHIT THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE AND MONEY OF COURSE THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE BUT DONT FORGET IF THAT BABY WOULD HAVE SUFFACATED THINK ABOUT IT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN THE WORLD THAT CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF UR CHILD!!!! All THAT IS MATERIAL SHIT THAT CAN BE REPLACED YOUR BABY YOUR CHILD CAN NEVER BE REPLACED!! THAT SHOULD MEAN SO MUCH MORE THQN MOENY AND MEANINGLESS MATERIAL BULLSHIT ON THAT NOTE UR PPL MAKE ME SICK NOT EVEN WORRIED OR THINKIBG ABOUT THAT POOR BABY… U STUPID IGNORANT MATERIALIST PPL DONT FORGET THE MEANING OF PARENT HOOD TO LOVE CARE TO TEACH NO WONDER THIS GENERATION IS FUCKED…OH YA ENOUGH SAID SOMETHING LAME OR STRAIGHT STUPUD CUZ YALL DONT WANNA FACE THE FUCKIN TRUTH THAT IS CLEARLY TO SEE THAT YALL ARE MATERIAL PRICKS!!

It is amazing that this child was found in time! Thanks for the sharp eyed casino employee, the LEO’s and first responders, and special thanks to all who work tirelessly in hospitals to save people from themselves.

Interesting twist in the flow of the thread here to eugenics. Ms. Sanger was amajor proponent of eugenics.

The folks I have met at the local pregnancy care center were very kind to our family when we were in need. They connected us with La Leche League, assisted us with clothing and diapers and were very supportive.

There are many foster families in our county and there is a need for more. Both for long term and emergency placements. Trainings are available. The over generalization of foster care providers being evil is a very narrow and toxic representation of the folks who provide homes to often very wounded children and teens.

The use of family members to foster relatives children while their parent is in jail or a rehab program is the most common placement in our county.

Anyone can take the parenting classes offered by adult education in Eureka.

As a survivor of severe childhood neglect and abuse I was abundantly blessed to be taken in by relatives as a foster child. My uncle was ashamed at the abuse heaped upon me by my birth parents.

His calm loving care was the foundation to my path of healing and going from a victim to survivor to overcome. I am grateful that my mom was not able to get the abortion she wanted.

While my life has had some gnarly awful times, I have been given the gift of life and choose to forgive, to learn from my experiences and to thrive.

The pro abortion folks and eugenics folks seem to think that killing off the poor folks children such as myself is a noble and just cause.